CarClub 18-30

In 1978 I had just started at primary school. The same year, Mario Andretti won the F1 championship in a Lotus and, for reasons lost in time, I was gifted a black bodywarmer with the gold JPS logo on by...

It’s funny. Whenever I go to France I often get the horrible feeling that, as an Englishman, I’m as welcome as a hog roast at a Bar mitzvah. I don’t speak French, pardon, and I’m sure that doesn’t...

I have always felt a bit sorry for Maserati; passing from pillar to post in the reshuffles of various conglomerates for almost fifty years. After being kicked out of the sack by so many automotive bedfellows,...

I met a chap at Goodwood a few years back, a senior Engineer for the most prestigious of British marques, and over a cuppa and natter about our backgrounds I asked what car he actually owns himself. I...

If like me, you find yourself with a little too much time on your hands at the moment you might find the classic cars section of eBay an irresistible draw for a spot of cyber tyre kicking on the hunt for a...

In 2011 the Mail Online ran a story about how three of the original Italian Job minis, or what remained of them, had finally resurfaced from a lock up in the backstreets of Turin. According to the article,...

Crude, gutless and rejected by the military, this is the unlikely story of how the reinvented Moke charmed civvy street to become a 60s style icon. In downtown Los Angeles is the Museum of Failure, a...

The Caterham 21 was produced for the 1994 British Motor Show to celebrate 21 years of the Caterham 7. The aim was to have a car that offered "the chance to experience Caterham motoring in a more practical...

Here's the story of the most important burble (yes, that is the collective noun) of MGBs to ever leave the factory in Oxfordshire. This gorgeous MGB factory lightweight is one of three BMC Competition...